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OPEC production cut decision could push fuel prices to 120ppl says PRA
Pump prices could rise to 120ppl following the OPEC meeting in Vienna and news that production will be cut by 1.2 million barrels a day. City analysts estimate the decision will see Brent Crude heading towards US$55/barrel. Brian Madderson, chairman of the Petrol Retailers Association (PRA) said: “This producer’s accord ...
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Philip Morris shuns crooked retailers
Tobacco company Philip Morris (PML) has revealed that between December 2015 and September 2016 it excluded 43 retailers, with a further 7 exclusions pending, from its trade programs and field sales force call base in cases where stores have been found to engage in the sale of illicit tobacco products. ...
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Booths to open Texaco forecourt
A major food and drink retailer in the North West, Booths, is to add a new build Texaco-branded forecourt to its shop in Ormskirk, Lancashire, early in 2017. Its site in Ormskirk is built on the former World War II naval air station, HMS Ringtail, and has been built to ...
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NewsApplegreen to build its biggest GB site
Fast-growing Top 50 Indie Applegreen UK has won planning permission for its biggest development on the UK mainland. Its application for a 5,000sq ft trunk road service area (TRSA) on the A14 at Spaldwick, Cambridgeshire, was approved by nine votes to four by Huntingtonshire District Council’s planning committee. Applegreen’s parent ...
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Spar forecourt wins Appleby Westward awards
A Spar forecourt store at Maiden Newton in Dorset has won the Best Forecourt 2016 award at the third staging of the Appleby Westward Retail Awards. Olly Andrews’ Maiden Newton store won the Best Forecourt award along with the Best Spar Brand award, while colleague Abi James won the Best ...
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BOSS recruits development adviser
The British Oil Security Syndicate (BOSS), the independent trade organisation campaigning to reduce forecourt crime, has recruited Gary Worrow as development adviser. Worrow will be responsible for spearheading the development of the BOSS Electronic Reporting System (ERS) as an integrated management system that helps retailers to reduce forecourt crime. He ...
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£375m additional support for ULEVs
The Chancellor, Philip Hammond, has announced £375m in additional support between 2017 and 2021 to accelerate the transition to ultra-low emission vehicles (ULEVs) in the Autumn Statement. The funding includes £150m to create a cleaner bus and taxi fleet; £80m towards electric vehicle charging infrastructure; £40m of additional support for ...
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Forecourt Show 2017 already larger than 2015
Make a date in your diary for 24-26 April 2017, because that’s when The Forecourt Show will take place at the NEC Birmingham, alongside National Convenience Show and Farm Shop & Deli Show, showcasing more than 600 exhibitors and brands. The Forecourt Show is already 10% bigger than in 2015, ...
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NewsMorrisons to open shops on Rontec sites
Morrisons is planning to pilot a convenience food offer in ten petrol station shops owned and managed by Top 50 Indie Rontec. Four Morrisons Daily shops will open before Christmas and a further six in January. They will be up to 3,000sq ft in size, and will sell branded and ...
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Man stabbed at Tesco forecourt
The Essex Police service is appealing for witnesses after a man was stabbed and sprayed with what is believed to have been CS gas on a forecourt in Ongar. Officers were called by the ambulance service just after 4.50pm on Tuesday November 22 with reports a man had been stabbed ...
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IGD predicts rapid food-to-go growth
IGD is predicting the burgeoning food-to-go market will be worth £21.7bn by 2021, up from £16.1bn this year, offering significant opportunities for growth. IGD splits the market into five segments, with all expected to increase significantly by 2021, and it forecasts food-to-go sales at convenience, forecourts and other retailers will ...
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Dealer rents site in "record time”
NTS Retail Ltd has recently completed the letting of a former BP Petrol Station in Bridgwater, Somerset, in what it describes as record time. From first inspection to legal occupation was completed in less than one week. The previous tenant was vacating and NTS Retail was able to act promptly ...
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PRA welcomes duty freeze in Autumn Statement
The PRA has welcomed the Chancellor’s decision to invest in road infrastructure and not to raise duty on fuel in his Autumn Statement today. PRA chairman Brian Madderson said: “In recent weeks, we have been meeting with Treasury officials to discuss the impact of a fuel duty cut and have ...
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Hampshire site closed after LPG leak
Fire fighters imposed an exclusion zone around a Co-op forecourt in Hampshire for the second time after a suspected LPG leak on Monday November 21. Fire crews were called to the Co-operative Petrol Station on Wellworthy Road in Lymington, just a week after the station was first closed because of ...
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NewsMorrisons turns up the heat on fuel prices
Morrisons has turned up the heat on last week’s supermarket fuel price cuts with promises that its customers will pay below £1-a-litre for petrol for the first time since the Brexit vote. Over the weekend, the supermarket reduced the price of unleaded to a maximum of 109.9ppl at its 333 ...
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NewsShell to open first hydrogen refuelling facility in UK
Commissioning of the first hydrogen refuelling station (HRS) at a Shell site, at the Extra Motorway Service Area at Cobham, is under way following delivery of the electrolyser and buffer tank to the site earlier this week. The HRS will open to the public in early 2017. As the work ...
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Tesco and Morrisons developments grind to a halt
Significant trends affecting the growth of supermarket forecourts and oil company branded sites have been highlighted in the latest market report Experian Catalist. It shows the rapid development of forecourts by two of the four major supermarkets has ground to a halt. Tesco is down one to 504 in the ...
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Chancellor "warming" to fuel duty cut
PRA chairman Brian Madderson believes his call for a cut in fuel duty is gaining traction after a meeting with Treasury officials. Following the meeting he said he now “trusts that the Chancellor is warming to the idea of a fuel duty cut and that his autumn statement will ...
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Used car sales at record levels
Growth in the used car market continued in the third quarter of 2016 as UK buyers bought a record 2,148,050 vehicles, according to figures published by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). Demand grew 7.9% compared with third quarter of 2015. Consumer appetite for alternatively fuelled vehicles rose ...
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NewsPolice investigate forecourt attack
Metropolitan Police have released CCTV footage of an attack on a forecourt which left a man with a fractured jaw. The incident occurred after two men were seen parking a car in the forecourt of the Esso petrol station in Broadway, Bexleyheath, south-east London on Wednesday 5 October. But a ...